KARACHI, May 12: The team of medicolegal officers (MLOs) which performed post-mortem on the bodies of the 11 French nationals who had been killed in the suicide car bomb explosion here on May 8 have been called to the federal capital by an intelligence agency in connection with the investigations, sources told Dawn on Sunday.

The sources said police surgeon Dr Qasim Soomro, an additional police surgeon at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Dr Irfan Qureshi, and three medicolegal officers, Dr Yasmeen, Dr Yahya and Dr Mehboob, had been asked to report at the office of the federal minister of health on May 15, with all relevant record. These three doctors (MLOs) also examined the remains of the suicide bomber.

Post-mortem on the 11 bodies had been performed by a team of doctors, comprising Dr Ghulam Ali, Assistant Professor in Forensic Medicine, and the above-mentioned three medicolegal officers of the JPMC.

Air tickets for the five doctors had been sent from Islamabad here to the office of the police surgeon, the sources said.

The upper half of the suicide bomber’s body was completely dismembered due to the intensity of the explosion. The remains of the lower half of the body were brought to the JPMC.

The team of doctors also examined the remains of the suicide bomber for circumcision and they found that the man had been circumcised, the sources said.